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EARTH SCIENCE REVIEW TEST

MULTIPLE CHOICES. Read and analyze each sentence. Choose and circle the letter of the
correct answer.
1. These are naturally occurring 6. It is a process of formation of
inorganic solids that have a minerals wherein animals produce
crystalline structure and definite minerals in their bodies often for the
chemical composition. purpose of hardening or
a. Minerals strengthening body tissues.
b. Rocks a. Solidification of a melt
c. Soil b. Solid-state diffusion
d. Water c. Biomineralization
d. Fumarolic mineralization
2. It is a mixture of decomposed 7. In this process, the movement of
organic matter and broken-down atoms, molecules or ions through a
rocks and minerals. solid result in the formation of a
a. Minerals crystal lattice.
b. Rocks a. Solidification of a melt
c. Soil b. Solid-state diffusion
d. Water c. Biomineralization
d. Fumarolic mineralization
3. These are naturally formed 8. It is a mineral that has a special
aggregates of minerals or mineral- value because it is rare and
like substances. beautiful.
a. Minerals a. Gemstone
b. Rocks b. Gem
c. Soil c. Precious stone
d. Water d. Semiprecious stone
9. This physical characteristic of a
4. It is one of the common minerals that mineral refers to how the mineral
we use, and it is inorganic for it surface scatters light.
contains no carbon. a. Steak
a. Table salt b. Luster
b. Crystal c. Hardness
c. Silicon oxide d. Cleavage
d. Calcium fluoride 10. It refers to the color that is revealed
by the mineral when it is in pulverized
5. Which of the following is a rock that form.
is not made form minerals? a. Steak
a. Crystal b. Luster
b. Coal c. Hardness
c. Quartz d. Cleavage
d. Mica
11. It refers to the tendency of a mineral 17. These are plutonic rocks that
to break along planes of weakness in intruded into cracks and crevices of
its atomic structure. existing rocks.
a. Steak a. Batholiths
b. Luster b. Sills
c. Hardness c. Dikes
d. Cleavage d. Pluton
18. These are plutonic rocks that
12. It is a measure of the relative ability intruded into cracks and crevices of
of a mineral to resist scratching. existing rocks but slanted.
a. Steak a. Batholiths
b. Luster b. Sills
c. Hardness c. Dikes
d. Cleavage d. Pluton

13. Which of the following minerals is the 19. These rocks form when preexisting
hardest based on the Mohs Hardness rocks change into a new rock
Scale? because of an increase in
a. Apatite temperature and pressure and/or
b. Calcium shearing of rocks under elevated
c. Diamond temperature.
d. Talc a. Metamorphic rocks
b. Sedimentary rocks
14. Which of the following minerals is the c. Igneous rocks
softest based on the Mohs Hardness d. Volcanic rocks
Scale?
a. Apatite 20. These rocks form on the Earth’s
b. Calcium surface when fragments of earlier
c. Diamond rocks, minerals, and organisms
d. Talc accumulate and become
15. It is the resulting rock that is cemented.
produced when molten materials a. Metamorphic rocks
cool down and solidify. b. Sedimentary rocks
a. Metamorphic rocks c. Igneous rocks
b. Sedimentary rocks d. Volcanic rocks
c. Igneous rocks
d. Volcanic rocks 21. It refers to the process the break up
16. What do you call to the magma that and corrode solid rocks, transforming
solidifies underground because it is them into sediments.
injected or pushed into existing rocks a. Weathering
found in the Earth’s crust? b. Sedimentation
a. igneous rock c. Oxidation
b. intrusive rock d. Dissolution
c. extrusive rock
d. plutonic rock
 22. This is a process of physical 26. It is fundamental theory of geology
weathering wherein when water in which the lithosphere is divided
trapped in the joints of rocks freezes, into crustal plates.
it forces the joints to open causing it a. Asthenosphere
to enlarge and eventually for the b. Compositional bonding
rock to break apart. c. Plate tectonics
a. Thermal expansion d. Subsidence
b. Hydrolysis 27. It refers to the layer of the mantle
c. Frost wedging that lies between 100-150km and 350
d. Hydration km deep, relatively soft, and can
23. This is a process of chemical flow when acted by forces.
weathering wherein occurs when a. Asthenosphere
minerals contained in rocks absorbs b. Compositional bonding
water causing the minerals to c. Plate tectonics
expand, and eventually for the rock d. Subsidence
to break apart. 28. It refers to the sinking of a part of
a. Thermal expansion lithosphere.
b. Hydrolysis a. Asthenosphere
c. Frost wedging b. Compositional bonding
d. Hydration c. Plate tectonics
24. It occurs when minerals react with d. Subsidence
water. 29. It refers to a process of
a. Thermal expansion transformation in shape, form, or
b. Hydrolysis appearance.
c. Frost wedging a. Weathering
d. Hydration b. Metamorphism
25. It occurs when all matter expands c. Sedimentation
when subjected to intense heat. d. Diffusion
a. Thermal expansion 30. It is the process in which atoms
b. Hydrolysis migrate through a material.
c. Frost wedging a. Weathering
d. Hydration b. Metamorphism
c. Sedimentation
d. Diffusion

IDENTIFICATION. Identify what is being stated in each sentence. Write your answer in the
space provided.
______________________ 31. It is a curving chain of volcanoes that is formed adjacent to a
convergent plate boundary. VOLCANIC ARC
______________________ 32. It is a deep elongate trough bordering a volcanic arc. TRENCH
______________________ 33. It is a bend or wrinkle of layers of rocks as a result of
deformation. FOLD
______________________ 34. Two plates move towards each other, one plate sinking
beneath the other. CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY
______________________ 35. It is the indisputable physical evidence that sea floor spreads.
PALEOMAGNETISM
______________________ 36. Bands of vertical fractures that lies parallel to one another and
at right angles to mid-ocean ridges. FRACTURE ZONES
______________________ 37. It is the sea-floor’s cross section which shows ocean depth
plotted against location. BATHYMETRIC PROFILE
______________________ 38. It is a distinct scratch patterns left on rocks by ice sheets as
they slid past the surface of the rocks. GLACIAL SITUATIONS
______________________ 39. This theory proposes that continents had once been joined
and overtime had drifted apart. CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY
______________________ 40. It is used to roam the connected land masses of South America
and Africa. CYNOGNATHUS

MATCHING TYPE. Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer on
the space provided.
A B
_______ 41. This is a geological formation above the sea level a. Rift valley
produced when two adjacent continental plates are
pulled apart from each other.
_______ 42. It is a plate boundary where one plate slides past b. Pangea
another.
_______ 43. It is a fracture in the Earth’s surface along which one c. Divergent plate
body of rock is displaced by another. boundary
_______ 44. This is the zone where the oceanic plate is below the d. Transform plate
continental plate, resulting in its destruction and boundary
transformation into magma.
_______ 43. Scientists used this technology to transmit pulses e. Fault
towards the seafloor, and from the echoes that
return, they were able to obtain its bathymetric
profile.
_______ 46. It is the deformation of the lithosphere. f. Alfred Wegener
_______ 47. It is the rigid outermost shell of the planet and is g. Sonar
composed of the crust and upper mantle.
_______ 48. It refers to the climate from distant past. h. Tectonism
_______ 49. This is the supercontinent that existed between the i. Subduction zone
Paleozoic and Mesozoic period. From this one big land
mass came the continents that have today.
_______ 50. He is credited to be the first proponent of continental j. Lithosphere
drift theory.
k. Paleoclimate